News.yahoo.com – By Adam Tanner
San Francisco (Reuters) – California’s Supreme Court gave the final green light on Wednesday for gay marriages to begin later this month, turning down requests for a delay.
The most populous U.S. state’s highest court ruled last month that refusing homosexuals the right to wed violated the state constitution.
Opponents then asked the court to halt the start of gay weddings until November, when the state’s voters will decide a ballot measure that, if approved by a simple majority, will define marriage as a union between a man and a woman.